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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Micro-VC: The Artist Formerly Known as “Super Angel” The “Micro-VC” funds (also known by the misnomer “Super Angel funds”), started as far back as the mid-90s with Ron Conway and earlier incarnations of his SV Angel fund. and no, we didn’t. They are operators, through and through.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. ProfessorVC.

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. At the low-end this might come from friends, family or angel investors. At the high-end pre-seed angel funds might invest. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

www.paulgraham.com

The sixth largest center for oil, or finance, or publishing?Whatever In the first batch of startups we funded, in the summerof 2005, most of the founders spent all their time building theirapplications. We investsmall amounts of our own, like angel investors. [ Why is the falloff so sharp?

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Startup Resources

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Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Fenwick & West Seed Investment Standard Forms, used by most angels. Venture Hacks Angel List â??